WEBVTT
PEGGY: TAKE A LOOK BEHIND ME.
SOME CHILDREN JUST BROUGHT THESE
BALLOONS TO THE HOME.
IT WAS JUST AFTER 11:00 LAST
NIGHT WHEN THE FIRE BROKE OUT
HERE.
THE MAN WAS DOWNSTAIRS AND GOT
OUT, BUT HIS WIFE WAS JUST
BEYOND THAT WINDOW.
NEIGHBORS WERE SUMMONED TO HELP.
>> WE HEAR A KNOCK ON THE DOOR.
IT WAS A PRETTY FRANTIC KNOCK.
PEGGY: THAT'S HOW JORDANN
STINNETT AND HER HUSBAND WERE
ALERTED TO THE BLAZE.
>> MY HUSBAND GETS OUT ON THE
BACK PORCH AND ALL I SEEN WAS
FLAMES IN THE WINDOW.
PEGGY: THE MAN APPEARED TO BE
OK, BUT HE WAS OF COURSE WORRIED
ABOUT HIS WIFE.
HE HADN'T BEEN ABLE TO REACH HER
AND NEITHER COULD ANYONE ELSE,
INCLUDING JORDANN'S HUSBAND.
>> HE WENT TO THE DOOR AND
WANTED TO GET IN, YOU KNOW,
HELP HER AND HE SAID JUST THE
HEAT FROM THE INSIDE, THAT HE
SAID THERE'S NO WAY HE WAS GOING
TO BE ABLE TO.
PEGGY: FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED
WITHIN MINUTES AND GOT THE WOMAN
OUT, BUT SHE COULD NOT BE
REVIVED.

A woman died in a duplex fire late Monday night, according to the Kansas City, Kansas, Fire Department.
Firefighters were called after 11 p.m. to the 2500 block of South 46th Street.
Crews said a man who lived in the home got out, but he couldn't get to his wife.
Jordann Stinnett and her husband said they heard a frantic knock on the door.
"My husband gets out on the back porch and all I seen was flames in the window," Stinnett said. "He went to the door and wanted to get in, you know, to help her."
She said the heat inside the home made it impossible for him to go inside.
Fire crews got the woman out of the house. She later died at a hospital.
The woman's name has not been released, but people who live in the neighborhood said she was like a grandmother to all the nearby children.
No other injuries were reported.
Investigators said they're still trying to determine the cause of the fire. The home had two working smoke detectors.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. —

A woman died in a duplex fire late Monday night, according to the Kansas City, Kansas, Fire Department.

Firefighters were called after 11 p.m. to the 2500 block of South 46th Street.

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Crews said a man who lived in the home got out, but he couldn't get to his wife.

Jordann Stinnett and her husband said they heard a frantic knock on the door.

"My husband gets out on the back porch and all I seen was flames in the window," Stinnett said. "He went to the door and wanted to get in, you know, to help her."

She said the heat inside the home made it impossible for him to go inside.

Fire crews got the woman out of the house. She later died at a hospital.

The woman's name has not been released, but people who live in the neighborhood said she was like a grandmother to all the nearby children.

No other injuries were reported.

Investigators said they're still trying to determine the cause of the fire. The home had two working smoke detectors.